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brucesterling: *I blame society. http://archive.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2014/09/alexandra-deschamps-sonsino-explaining-modern-electronic-hardware-people/
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Tinajero & Freeman, eds. Technology and Culture in Twentieth-Century Mexico. Found this in while browsing. .@uofdenver
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daveortega: Lowriders in Space is a comic that will be available everywhere this November with illustrations by mi compa Raul the Third. The Miracle 5 team put together a trailer for the book: Elaine Bay directed and edited from a script by Cathy Camper (LRIS author); Chris Miller did the music; and narration is by…
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npr: The monuments we build today are going to shift and change — just like we do. What I like about the Mandela sculpture (and what makes me uneasy about the World Trade Center pools), is that [South African artist Marco] Cianfanelli knows that we’re changelings, so his monument keeps asking us to shift position, to adjust,…
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Google is breeding the young minds of the next generation of artists. Don’t take me wrong, it’s not my opinion, it’s simply what Google states in the marketing campaign (see the heading image) that is accompanying the infamous DevArt exhibition at the Barbican in London. There has been an intense debate in the past weeks…
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rudygodinez: Oskar Schlemmer, Gesture Dance, (1926-1927) (from top) 1) Scene from “Gesture Dance” with Schlemmer, Siedhoff and Kaminsky. 2) Diagram from “Gesture Dance” with Stage Open at Both Ends
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Stick-figure AES: crypto explanations for the rest of us [2013]
mostlysignssomeportents: Jeff Moser’s “A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)“ beautifully presents the history, context, and workings of one of the most important pieces of math in the modern world. AES is at the core of virtually every privacy technology you use, and it holds the promise of building an NSA-proof, unsnoopable…
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What’s emerging from these studies isn’t just a theory of language or of metaphor. It’s a nascent theory of consciousness. Any algorithmic system faces the problem of bootstrapping itself from computing to knowing, from bit-shuffling to caring. Igniting previously stored memories of bodily experiences seems to be one way of getting there. And so may…
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The future is bright and mobile and just a couple weeks away | Tumblr de Chartier
The future is bright and mobile and just a couple weeks away | Tumblr de Chartier minimalmac: Tumblr de Chartier: Instead of leaving the house with a heavy backpack and being reliant on limited, unreliable, sketchy wifi hotspots, I can grab a small satchel and do anything I want anywhere I want, including places where…
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slavin: There are so many reasons I am grateful to work with the Playful group here … but today’s reasons include @gregab turning me onto this 1972 Stafford Beers that would still be radical if someone wrote it next year. (at MIT Media Lab)